Tor, the preferred browser for anonymous access to the dark web, apparently isn’t as anonymous as you might think, according to a new study. With increased scrutiny of dark web transactions from authorities and potential hackers, published paper 'The Hacker Factor Blog' also highlights a new privacy project called Nym, which aims to address long-known vulnerabilities on the Tor network.
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer ‘fixated’ on buying Bitcoin
Longtime host of CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’, said he is fixated on acquiring bitcoin, citing fears of massive inflation of the US Dollar on the horizon. The latest figure in a growing list of high profile personalities to advocate moving into Bitcoin as a means of hedging against the Fed’s recent announcement that they’ll be moving to "push up" inflation, he stated he is adamant about leaving an inheritance of Bitcoin to his children.
This week, merchants whose fares included the word "Tardigrade" were banned from accepting payments due to the word being associated with an illicit arms dealer in Eastern Europe. The seemingly arbitrary ban of the use of the word without prior warning has devastated sales of collectibles sharing the same name, prompting some merchants to embrace Bitcoin’s peer to peer payment system as an alternative to Paypal’s unpredictable censorship.
Hackers keep attacking wallet holding $712 million
Over the past 2 years, hackers have been attempting to crack a Bitcoin wallet containing 69,000 Bitcoins, currently valued at an estimated $712 million US Dollars. According to the CTO of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, the wallet file has been sold on hacking forums for over $1000 USD, highlighting a black market trade of high-value wallet files.
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